Water polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics
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| Men's water polo at the Games of the II Olympiad |
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| Dates | August 11 (quarterfinals) August 12 (semifinals and final) |
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| Competitors | 58 from 4 nations | ||||||||
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At the 1900 Summer Olympics, a water polo tournament was contested.
8 teams entered the water polo event, with one withdrawing before competition. The tournament was played in a single-elimination format, with no playoff for third place. Thus, four of the seven competing teams won medals.
[edit] Tournament results
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||
| 11 August | 12 August | 12 August | |||||||
 Osborne Swimming Club (GBR) |
12 | ||||||||
 Tritons Lillois (FRA) |
0 | ||||||||
| Osborne Swimming Club | 10 | ||||||||
| Pupilles de Neptune de Lille #2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Pupilles de Neptune de Lille #2 (FRA) |
3 | ||||||||
 Berliner Swimming Club (GER) |
2 | ||||||||
| Osborne Swimming Club | 7 | ||||||||
| Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club | 2 | ||||||||
 Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club (BEL) |
2 | ||||||||
| Pupilles de Neptune de Lille #1 (FRA) |
0 | ||||||||
| Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club | 5 | ||||||||
| Libellule de Paris | 1 | ||||||||
| Libellule de Paris (FRA) |
Bye | ||||||||
| None | — | ||||||||
| Place | Team | Nation | Players |
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| 1 | Osborne Swimming Club[1] | Great Britain |
Thomas Coe John Henry Derbyshire Peter Kemp William Lister Arthur G. Robertson Eric Robinson George Wilkinson |
| 2 | Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club[2] | Belgium |
Jean de Backer Victor de Behr Henri Cohen Fernand Feyaerts Oscar Grégoire Albert Michant Victor Sonnemans |
| 3 | Libellule de Paris | France |
Thomas Burgess Jules Clévenot[3] Alphonse Decuyper Louis Laufray Henri Peslier Pesloy Paul Vasseur |
| Pupilles de Neptune de Lille #2[4] | France |
Eugène Coulon Fardelle Favier Leriche Louis Martin Désiré Mérchez Charles Treffel |
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| 5 | Berliner Swimming Club | Germany |
Hans Aniol Paul Gebauer Max Hainle Georg Hax Gustav Lexau Herbert von Petersdorff Fritz Schneider |
| Pupilles de Neptune de Lille #1 | France |
Favier[5] P. Houben Leriche[5] Jean Leuillieux E. Martin Tartara Charles Treffel[5] |
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| Tritons Lillois | France |
Bertrand Victor Cadet Maurice Hochepied Leclerq Tisserand Charles de Vendevill Verbecke |
[edit] Notes
- ^ Mallon lists 5 players in addition to these 7 found in the IOC database.
- ^ Mallon lists 3 players in addition to these 7.
- ^ Listed in the IOC database as "Devenot", but almost certainly the same person who competed in swimming.
- ^ Mallon lists 4 players in addition to these 7.
- ^ a b c This player appears to have played for both PdNdL teams.
[edit] References
- International Olympic Committee medal winners database
- De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Water Polo 1900". Accessed 11 March 2006. Available electronically at [1].
- Mallon, Bill (1998). The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 0-7864-0378-0.
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